Suspenders.



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PENDERS.

FILED AUG.4,191

Patented Feb. 6,1917.

WALTER MATEER, F MANSFIELD, OHIO.

SUSENDERS.

Specication of Letters Patent.` j

Patented Feb. 6, Titti?.

Application filed August 4, 1915. Serial No, 43,675.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER MATEER, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at lidansfield, in the county of Richland and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Suspenders, of which the following is a specification. f

rlhis invention relates to Suspenders and especially to the type commonly known as invisible Suspenders.

The primary object of this invention is to provide a suspender that will connectthe shoulder straps and the supporting straps in such a manner as to afford a yielding con'- nection between them which will permit the straps to automatically adjust themselves to the various irregular movements of the body of the wearer, thereby preventing undue strain upon the straps and giving comfort and ease to the wearer, irrespective of the position or shape of the body.

Another object is to connect the shoulder and supporting straps by a universal joint which includes a method of interlacing supplementary straps which are connected toV the shoulder straps and adapted to pass over and travel on the rollers of the universal joint to obviate undue friction.

A further object is to connect and arrange the shoulder straps and supporting straps to afford facilities for slipping on the Suspenders upon the body of the wearer after the fashion of a coat or the like.

A further feature of the invention is the method of yieldingly connecting one end of the shoulder and supporting straps to a common center preferably located at the median line of the back of the wearer from which point the combined straps radiate or diverge to loop over the shoulders of the wearer and also depend adjacent to the hips of the wearer to be attached to the trouser for supporting purposes.

Janother object is to provide an invisible suspender that will adjust itself automatically to support a trouser or the like equally at all times and under all circumstances pull, draw, carry and balance the weight thereof without undue or unequal strain upon any of the parts comprising the suspender.

I attain these and other objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is an enlarged rear elevation in perspective of my invention showing the universal joint connected to fragments of the shoulder straps through the medium of supplementary straps which engage the universal joint and the means of connecting the universal joint to the supporting straps. Fig. 2 is front elevation in perspective of the invention showing the suspender in po sition to slip on the wearer and the parts thereof assembled and in their normal posin tion when the suspender Iis upon the body of the wearer. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of Fig. 2.

ln the drawings, reference numerals l and 2 represent shoulder straps to one end of which the supplementary reduced straps 3 and 4e are attached. Intermediate of the ends of the shoulder straps l and 2, the supplementary straps engage the rollers 5 and 6, the crown form of the faces thereof serving to maintain the movable supplementary straps upon the central portion of the crown rollers, thereby keeping the edge of the supplementary strap from contacting with the sides of the journal yokes to obviate undue friction, permitting the straps to movably respond to the pull or drawof the shoulder and supporting straps freely to conform and coincide with the movement of the body of the wearer and equalize the strain on the parte of the suspender as contra-distinguished from the strain produced when the straps comprising the Suspenders are connected together by a non-movable joint.

The supplementary strap l is separately fastened to the shoulder strap l by the tabs 7 which are disposed on each side thereof and one end of the supplementary strap 4 interposed therebetween The opposite end of the supplementary strap l is interlaced between the sides 8 and 9 of a yoke formed with a journal upon which the roller 6 is mounted and it is then fastened by the tabs l0 to the shoulder strap 2, making what might be termed a straight movable belt contact.

One end of the supplementary strap 3 is also interposed between, but underneath, the supplementary strap 4: and is also fassupplementary .by the tabs 10, making a cross belt contact.

The above arrangements and method of connecting the shoulder straps in conjunc-V tion with the universal joint, provides a yielding and movable connection that obviates friction. The supporting straps 13 and 14 are connected to the journal yokes by a member 15 that is provided with a journal 16 that receives and pivotally journals the connecting members (not shown) of the yokcs. The member 15 also rigidly fastens and joins the supporting straps 13 and 14.

It will be observed that the above arrangements permit the straps to diverge and radiate from a common center to perform the functions intended as particularly pointed out in the objects described herein.

A buckle 17 and loop connection 17 provide means for adjusting the shoulder straps to the height and body of the wearer. A button fastener 18 is preferably used to at- Copiels of this patent may be obtained for tach the supporting andshoulder straps to the trouser or the like, the supporting straps' being looped to receive and fasten the hanger thereto.

Attention is called to the fact that the assembled suspender made up and arranged as described, provides a skeleton coat-like form that makes it easy and convenient to slip on.

Vhat is claimed is:

A two-point suspension suspender7 comprising a pair of button fasteners, a pair of rear straps connected together at their upper ends and looped adjacentv their opposite ends, the looped portion of each strap pass-A ing through one of the button fasteners, a pair of front straps connected at their lower ends to the looped ends of the rear straps at a point above the button fasteners, means carried by the connected ends of the rear straps,` and a pair of straps connecting the upper ends of the front straps, and -said connecting straps passing through said means for forming a yielding connection.

Intestimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

` WALTER MATEER.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. COSS,

PEARL M. YANCHER,

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. E. 

